InorganicMatter
30th May 2007, 03:51
Hey all,
I was reading this wonderful HD-DVD to x264 guide by idamien (thanks!) and caught this tidbit:
As to using x264 command line: this is not the only choice. You can use any converter that can read AVISynth scripts as input. Among the free ones there is MeGUI, an excellent frontend to encoding using x264, XviD and other free codecs. The only reason I havenīt written this guide based on MeGUI is that I couldnīt get it to work properly under Windows Vista...
I dunno if this has been answered or not, but I stumbled across the solution to this quite by accident a while ago and thought I would share the secret. Anyways, MeGUI doesn't play nice with the new User Account Control that is enabled by default in Vista, and this is what causes the problems. I found two solutions: number on is unadvised, and that is to just turn off UAC. This solution works, but defeats on of the precious few reasons to move to Vista. The second solution seems to be the best - right-click the MeGUI shortcut, go to compatibility, and check "Run this program as administrator." Vista will now ask you "cancel or allow" every time you start up MeGUI, but...it will now have the proper admin privileges it needs to run correctly! I've been using it for weeks using this and it works great!!
If this has already been figured out, just lock up or delete this thread. :p Just trying to give back a bit to the community that has helped me so much. :thanks:
I was reading this wonderful HD-DVD to x264 guide by idamien (thanks!) and caught this tidbit:
As to using x264 command line: this is not the only choice. You can use any converter that can read AVISynth scripts as input. Among the free ones there is MeGUI, an excellent frontend to encoding using x264, XviD and other free codecs. The only reason I havenīt written this guide based on MeGUI is that I couldnīt get it to work properly under Windows Vista...
I dunno if this has been answered or not, but I stumbled across the solution to this quite by accident a while ago and thought I would share the secret. Anyways, MeGUI doesn't play nice with the new User Account Control that is enabled by default in Vista, and this is what causes the problems. I found two solutions: number on is unadvised, and that is to just turn off UAC. This solution works, but defeats on of the precious few reasons to move to Vista. The second solution seems to be the best - right-click the MeGUI shortcut, go to compatibility, and check "Run this program as administrator." Vista will now ask you "cancel or allow" every time you start up MeGUI, but...it will now have the proper admin privileges it needs to run correctly! I've been using it for weeks using this and it works great!!
If this has already been figured out, just lock up or delete this thread. :p Just trying to give back a bit to the community that has helped me so much. :thanks: